Textbooks.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Arithmetic text book., 18th century.
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Geometry textbook., 1685.
Incomplete manuscript copy of the ‘Institutes’, of Justinian., 18th century.
Incomplete manuscript copy of the ‘Institutes’, of Justinian, beginning ‘E cementa Jurisquibus’., 18th century.
Mathematics textbook, undated, in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale., 3rd quarter of 17th century- [before 1713].
Miscellaneous manuscript volumes, received bound., 1685-mid 20th century, undated.
Miscellaneous manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey., 16th century-?1935.
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Miscellaneous papers, including Hausa language material., 1956-1966, undated.
The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.
Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester., 1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Translation by Thomas Cochrane of ‘Cotispectus medicinae theoreticae’ by James Gregory.
The edition used was probably the sixth, published in Edinburgh in 1818, but the translation omits James Gregory's preface. The manuscript also includes translations of short passages from Homer, Xenophon, and Virgil (folios 3-23). Thomas Cochrane appears to have been a pupil at Oakham House School, near Dudley.